Alliance Formed to Combat Security Threats

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Proofpoint, Inc., and Purewire, Inc., providers of SaaS-based security services, announced this week they are alliance partners, and are engaged in joint sales and marketing activities to bring enterprise customers security solutions.

As an example, the companies offered Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG), which has deployed the Proofpoint ENTERPRISE SaaS email security solution to protect its more than 10,000 inboxes. TCSG also deployed the Purewire Mobile for BlackBerry in October 2008 to fill a gap left by its legacy on-premise URL filter. Later, TCSG selected the Purewire Web Security Service to protect its 44,000 users browsing the Web on campuses, and via laptops and BlackBerry devices.

“Security threats are no longer confined to an email inbox or a Web site, but take advantage of both attack vectors,” says Steven Ferguson, security engineer at TCSG. “By working with Proofpoint and Purewire, we’ve been able to easily secure the online activity at each campus across the state and keep our users safe.”

Of the alliance, Ramon Peypoch, executive vice president of business development for Proofpoint comments, “Purewire’s SaaS-based Web security solutions are the perfect complement to our SaaS email security, archiving and data loss prevention products. SaaS is a cost-effective way for enterprises like TSCG to address the risks posed by today’s increasingly complex blended threats.”